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...of disabled Americans.Along with the likes of Sens. Olympia Snowe of Maine, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island and ArlenSpecter of Pennsylvania, he found himself increasingly out of step with a GOP that was turning sharply to the right.Jeffords...

...group charged with investigating the assassination. In short time, Curtis had a pre-interview with special counsel ArlenSpecter.To Curtis, it seemed the future Pennsylvania senator was trying to sway, if not intimidate, him about Kennedy's...

...ready to vote for a nonbinding measure critical of Bush's decision to deploy an additional 21,500 troops. Sen. ArlenSpecter, R-Pa., said he told the president after one recent White House meeting that he "didn't see the need for more...

...majority of the American people," he said. "I think he's lost the confidence of the Congress." Pennsylvania Sen. ArlenSpecter, the top Republican on the committee, said Gonzales' resignation was a "question for the president and the attorney...

...improper because U.S. attorneys are political appointees. Stopping short of demanding Gonzales' resignation, Sen. ArlenSpecter cited a Nov. 27 calendar entry placing the attorney general at a Justice Department meeting to discuss the dismissals...

...retribution, not support of Gonzales. "There is no confidence in the attorney general on this side of the aisle," said ArlenSpecter of Pennsylvania, the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, announcing he would vote for the no-confidence...

...continue to choose the route of confrontation." In fact, the Judiciary Committee's three most senior Republicans - ArlenSpecter of Pennsylvania, former chairman Orrin Hatch of Utah and Chuck Grassley of Iowa - sided with Democrats on the 13-3...

...easiest prospects, some said, might be a current or former colleague of senators charged with the confirmation. Sen. ArlenSpecter, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, told reporters Monday that he would not accept the job, if offered...